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• USS Roy O. Hale (DE-336)
  |Ship out of service= ...[[convoys]]. Post-war, she provided [[radar picket]] duty services as part of the [[Distant Early Warning Line]].
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• 20 mm modèle F2 gun
  ...cted to design the F2 20 mm cannon, which essentially a navalised version of the M693 gun used by the French Army, and sold for export. ...shot burst, or free fire. There is an electrical trigger in the right hand of the gunner. A manual selector allows to change the box feeding the weapon d
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• Hispano-Suiza HS.404
  |origin={{flagcountry|France}} |used_by=United Kingdom, [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] & [[United States]]
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...lklands War]] <br>[[South African Border War]]<br>[[United States invasion of Panama]] <br>[[Gulf War]] <br>[[Somali Civil War]] <br>[[Operation Medak Po ...Gun''', or "Ma Deuce" is a [[heavy machine gun]] designed towards the end of [[World War I]] by [[John Browning]]. It is very similar in design to John
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• Ordnance QF 2 pounder
  ...ion=The QF 2 pounder in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Israel. Note the folded legs of the carriage. ...un on British tanks early in World War II, and was a typical main armament of [[Armored car (military)|armoured car]]s such as the [[Daimler Armoured Car
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• Hydroelectric
  ...l 2006.jpg|thumb|right|280px|The [[Three Gorges Dam]] in China, the [[List of the largest hydroelectric power stations|largest hydro-electric power stati ...approximately 20% of the world's electricity, and accounted for about 88% of electricity from renewable sources.<ref name="REN21-2006">[http://www.ren21
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• Co-trimoxazole
  ...amethoxazole]], in the ratio of 1 to 5, used in the treatment of a variety of bacterial infections. The name co-trimoxazole is the [[British Approved Nam ...vity of the combination of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole in infections of mice|journal=Postgrad Med J|year=1969|volume=45|issue=Suppl|pages=18|pmid=4
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• Rifampicin
  ...ited States Adopted Name|USAN]]) is a [[bactericidal]] [[antibiotic]] drug of the [[rifamycin]] group.<ref name="isbn0-07-142290-0">{{cite book |author=M ...}</ref> they decided to call these compounds "rifamycins". After two years of attempts in order to obtain more stable semi-synthetic products, in 1959 a
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• Ciprofloxacin
  ...ce K, Forrest A, Leslie J, Caldwell J |title=Absolute oral bioavailability of ciprofloxacin |journal=Antimicrob Agents Chemother. |volume=30 |issue=3 |pa | routes_of_administration = [[Route of administration#Enteral|Oral]], [[intravenous therapy|intravenous]], [[topic
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• Aspirin
  ...tances binds [[platelet]] molecules together to create a patch over damage of the walls within blood vessels. Because the platelet patch can become too l ...f Acute Myocardial Infarction in Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries : Patterns of Use and Outcomes| journal = Circulation| year = 1995|pmid = 7586250}}</ref>
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• Simvastatin
  ...disease]]. Simvastatin is a synthetic derivate of a fermentation product of ''[[Aspergillus terreus]]''. ...s discovery encouraged scientists worldwide to find an effective inhibitor of this enzyme.
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• Morphine
  *[[Cardiac arrest]], cessation of [[Cardiac cycle|heartbeat]], or [[heart failure]] *[[Flushing (physiology)|Flushing]] of the [[face]]
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• Taxus baccata
  ...] and southwest [[Asia]].<ref name=rushforth>Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe''. Collins ISBN 0-00-220013-9.</ref> It is the tree orig ...th the leaf bases twisted to align the leaves in two flat rows either side of the stem, except on erect leading shoots where the spiral arrangement is mo
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• Airspeed Oxford
  <!-- This article is a part of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft]]. Please see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Airc |status= Out of production, out of service
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• Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
  ...formed a partnership to create a new book that would embody the new spirit of scholarship. [[William Smellie (encyclopedist)|William Smellie]] was engage The encyclopaedia's reputation grew throughout the publication of its subsequent volumes.
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  | image = {{Double image|center|Spine of Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica.jpg|49|Americanized Encyclopædia Bri | image_caption = New American edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1899)
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• Aramid
  ...chain molecules are highly oriented along the fiber axis, so the strength of the [[chemical bond]] can be exploited. ...roup (China) under the trade name [[X-Fiper]], a variant of meta-aramid in France by Kermel under the tradename Kermel.
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• National Centre for the Evaluation of Photoprotection
  CNEP is a research center for durability prediction and failures analysis of plastics (polymer) materials.<br /> The increasing use of [[plastics]] in daily life and for high tech applications points out the ne
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• Bitumen
  ..., sticky, entirely soluble in [[carbon disulfide]], and composed primarily of highly condensed [[polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon]]s. Naturally occurring or '''crude bitumen''' is a sticky, [[tar]]-like form of [[petroleum]] that is so thick and heavy that it must be heated or diluted
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• Petroleum
  ...fined and separated, most easily by [[boiling point]], into a large number of consumer products, from [[petrol]] and [[kerosene]] to [[asphalt]] and chem ...aries depending on the subsurface conditions, and on the [[phase diagram]] of the petroleum mixture.<ref name="Hyne 2001">Hyne (2001), pp. 1–4.</ref>
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